#WhyHaventYouResigned

Townhall.com ^ | May 18, 2014 | Kevin McCullough

[Kaslin]

Dr. Susan Rice,

This week while fielding questions at a foreign policy lunch you broke out a new piece of your stand-up act. The "scoff at the idiots still asking about Benghazi" portion of your routine actually scored laughs from the mostly friendly crowd who came to lunch with you.

“Danged if I know,” Rice said, to audience laughter. “I mean honestly, the administration has produced, I think, 25,000 pages of documents. It’s hard to imagine what further will come of yet another committee."

Please excuse me if I didn't see the humor in it.

Besides being the only National Security Advisor to perhaps have ever used the word "danged" in public, (How does one dang? And how did it become past tense?) your assertion that the number of documents turned over to the committees investigating Benghazi to date speaks to a degree of transparency by the administration you work for or even yourself--is truly laugh worthy.

Yeah, thanks but I'm not buying the "Susie from the hood" comedy sketch and I will not be ordering the DVD.

Instead Advisor Rice what I would like to do is pose a few of the questions that remain unanswered. Questions that the families of the victims of the Benghazi attack deserve answers to. And ones that were not covered in your 25,000 pages.

1. Where was President Obama between roughly 5:30pm EST--following his meeting with Defense Secretary Panetta--and 6:00am the next morning? We've been given zero details, and it seems as though he was no where to be found.

2. Why didn't Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not call back--as she promised she would--to the State Department number two in Libya? Ambassador Stevens was incapacitated, Gregory Hicks places a call to Secretary Clinton, who after speaking with him promises a response and action and a follow up phone call. As Hicks has testified before Congress, he is still awaiting that call.

3. Why did President Obama blame the attack on a video the morning after the attack before leaving for a fund-raiser in Las Vegas? Due to testimony from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta we know that the President knew that it was a terrorist attack by no later than 5:30pm the night of the attack.

4. Why did the President and his team insist on placing you as the administration spokesperson on five Sunday news shows five days after the attack? At the time you had no connection to national security and your present role was that of the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. You were not qualified on your face, background, or position to be offering opinion on how an international terrorist attack had gone down.

5. Why did you lie to the American people on five Sunday news shows? It was easily decipherable, once emails were obtained via Freedom of Information requests that you had been coached and instructed to lie to the American people on the five Sunday news shows. The question remains as to why you did. Shortly thereafter you were promoted to National Security Advisor--hence rewarded for lying to those of us who pay your salary.

6. Weeks later why did the President of the United States tell the same lie to the gathered body at the United Nations General Assembly? I might need to point out that he was clearly told that this had been a terrorist attack since about thirty minutes into the incident.

7. Why did help never come? Of all the questions the families of the victims have the right to have answered, this is the big kahuna. There was an obvious intensive strategy session pulled together to figure out how to deal with the press, to advance the narrative of the "video" as opposed to the facts, and a process of selecting who would be the mouthpiece for this PR stunt. You fulfilled your duties and got promoted. But why didn't the basic degree of help come for those who had been signaling trouble for more than 11 hours? The American military wants to know the answer to this question because they proudly serve with the basic understanding, that if they are caught in a firefight--their brothers will come running to the sound of the guns. But in Benghazi they were purposefully cut off. Those who radioed in, requesting permission to go help, were told to stand down.

Dr. Rice there are a good many more questions that the families of the victims of 9.11.12 have for you. Questions like, "Why did President Obama and Secretary Clinton look the families in the eye at Andrews Air Base, repeat the stagnant lie about the video, and then promise justice--all while the man who plotted the attack, sits in open-air cafes in Benghazi to this day doing full length press interviews?"

And yet, when asked if you thought this committee will do any good, you snickered, sneered, and went all "hood-rat" by saying, "Danged if I know..."

Dr. Rice the former and far more distinguished Dr. Rice who preceded you--a woman of integrity, character, and modesty--would've never been so flippant in responding to anything touching the deaths of brave Americans. She would also have done something else had she been in your shoes and had been asked by the President to lie to the American people five times in a row on the Sunday talk show circuit.

She would have resigned.

Why didn't you?

There will be an after life to your current political hackery. Reputation will be the center of your capital to wield for yourself. And at the pace you are going, it is unlikely you will have much left.

But by resigning you could stage at least a modest protest to the way things were handled, and pledge to the American people--YOUR BOSS--that you will never allow yourself to become embroiled in something this disgraceful again.

So why haven't you resigned?

Mr. Panetta this week, instead of laughing off the questions surrounding the upcoming select committee on Benghazi, answered them. He went on the record advising Democrats to participate in this important investigation, and to let the evidence lead them all to the proper conclusion.

He's doing the proper thing.

Will you?

#WhyHaventYouResigned

[cloudmountain]

Our POTUS doesn't have the cajones to admit error. It takes SOME kind of backbone to admit that. He doesn't have it; never did; never will.

I've ALWAYS found (since I was an adult) that it is BEST to admit error or apologize AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. Immediately, is best. The LONGER one waits, the tougher it is.

Besides, it puts the other person in a tough place. :o) "DANG, she apologized! Now I can't hold on to my "pissed off" anymore. What a wet blanket!!"

[BwanaNdege]

So why haven't you resigned?

That is an EASY question to answer!

Rice follows the leadership of her boss. After all, he is the One who needs to resign.

[Delta 21]

Makes no sense to apologize if you dont think you did anything wrong.

[kabar]

5. Why did you lie to the American people on five Sunday news shows? It was easily decipherable, once emails were obtained via Freedom of Information requests that you had been coached and instructed to lie to the American people on the five Sunday news shows. The question remains as to why you did. Shortly thereafter you were promoted to National Security Advisor--hence rewarded for lying to those of us who pay your salary.

Because Hillary did not want to lie in front of the cameras and hurt her 2016 political ambitions. Hillary is the one who made up the video story and did not want to be questioned about it.

[sauropod]

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[Washi]

***7. Why did help never come? Of all the questions the families of the victims have the right to have answered, this is the big kahuna.***

I agree that this is the big question, along with “why wasn’t the additional security requested before the attack provided”.

Yet, by far, the most common question coming from our side is “why did you lie about the video being the cause”.

That’s the only question that most of the moderately engaged public hear.

I’m sure, for that reason, most of them are in Hillary’s camp: “what difference does it make”?

[livius]

Excellent piece!

I don’t know why these dumb broads (Hillary included) let Bambi use them this way. She knew nothing about it, her job had nothing to do with it, and yet she was willing to run out there and say whatever Obama wanted her to say. And she’s still defending him, just the way Hillary did and continues to do.

[onedoug]

Simple question: Where was the supposed CIC while our people were being murdered?

The American people have the RIGHT to know.

[PGalt]

The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal. Go ahead, ask any criminal to self-correct, to stop lying. The marxist-socialist-totalitarian criminal has a massive support system. Self correct? Never. Stop lying? Never. They continue on destroying the foundations of any civilization. Witness history. Witness current events. Incarceration/elimination has been an effective solution.

Bastiat - Socialism Is Legal Plunder...

“The war that we must fight against socialism must be in harmony with law, honor, and justice.”

But why does not Mr. de Montalembert see that he has placed himself in a vicious circle? You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

/Bastiat

[Don Corleone]

“Danged if I know,” Rice said, to audience laughter. “I mean honestly, the administration has produced, I think, 25,000 pages of documents. It’s hard to imagine what further will come of yet another committee."

That is the current "Fax it to all good Leftists" blabbing point. The reliable left wing mouthpiece Bob Beckel recited it almost verbatim on "The Five" the other day. One of the reasons the left is so pwerful is that they stick together no matter how stupid the orders from headquarters are. RNC...please note!!!

[mylife]

There were troops 30 mins away in Sigonella.

[Lazamataz]

Every time I read a thread, I get so very sad.

[caveat emptor]

This week while fielding questions at a foreign policy lunch you broke out a new piece of your stand-up act. The "scoff at the idiots still asking about Benghazi" portion of your routine actually scored laughs from the mostly friendly crowd who came to lunch with you.

“Danged if I know,” Rice said, to audience laughter. “I mean honestly, the administration has produced, I think, 25,000 pages of documents. It’s hard to imagine what further will come of yet another committee."

...[she] went all "hood-rat" by saying, "Danged if I know..."

Danged if I know what a "hood-rat" is, though it suggests some sort of low-life black ghetto slum dweller, and if so is wide off the mark. "Danged" is, or at least used to be, a fairly common euphemism for "damned", along with the more profane "dagnabit". Gabby Hayes comes to mind.

I'd give her good marks for humor if not honesty.

[raybbr]

I don’t know why these dumb broads (Hillary included) let Bambi use them this way. She knew nothing about it, her job had nothing to do with it, and yet she was willing to run out there and say whatever Obama wanted her to say. And she’s still defending him, just the way Hillary did and continues to do.

She is not defending Bambi. She is defending progressivism and those who espouse it. She, and Shrillary, are willing to appear subservient and feal for the cause. It's just an illusion. The woman still holds a position of power. She did not "suffer" for her lies and probably never will. Therefore, in their eyes, the power and control over the American psyche remains intact.

Diversions are offered every day. If the hearing are conducted expect to see the admin out there attacking every facet of our lives as a diversion. The MSM will gleefully transcribe every hateful word out the admin about the people left in this country who care about it and ignore the hearings.

[mylife]

It is sad.

[Lazamataz]

I has a sad.

[mylife]

Cheer up mate.
Give them a smile and a wink and bust their chops.

[PGalt]

Excellent analysis. Spot on. Thanks. BUMP!